2$ BREEDING. 



differ so very much in their situation and 

 fertility for breeding, that many will not 

 produce horses of size, and the desirable 

 qualifications, at even treble their real value, 

 when brought to the very highest market 

 for disposal : for it is a fact indisputably 

 certain, that nothing but a part of the king- 

 dom remarkable for the abundance and lux- 

 uriance of its herbage, can ever produce 

 stock of size and value to render breedings 

 matter of emolument; the attempt, therefore, 

 in unfavourable situations, must ever recoil 

 upon the adventurer with additional disap- 

 pointment. 



These observations, so immediately rela- 

 tive to the idea of profit and loss, are by no 

 means introduced to restrain or deter those 

 from the practice, who are so unavoidably 

 circumstanced m situation, as to breed under 

 such disadvantage from the motives oi amuse" 

 merit only, where pecuniary compensation is 

 no way concerned or expected ; it is, how- 

 ever, to be presumed, that occasional refe- 

 rences to the instructions hereafter incul- 

 cated upon an extensive scale for the im- 

 provement of stock in general (without again 



